Latest articles by Ted Litchfield
Dragon Age: The Veilguard is bringing back the heinously ugly original sin of preorder/digital deluxe cosmetics, but I'm weirdly nostalgic for it now
news The tradition of all dead preorder bonuses weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living.
Dragon Age: The Veilguard's latest trailer is the best showing the game's gotten yet—BioWare really should have led with this months ago
news My cautious optimism is less cautious and more optimistic.
We can all see that Valve's unannounced shooter Deadlock just hit over 18,000 concurrent players, Gabe
news This thing's gotta come out soon, right?
Baldur's Gate 3's rarest ending has only been unlocked by 34 players, and it requires an obscenely specific sequence of poor decisions
news You gotta be evil Lae'zel, and also very bad at it.
Elden Ring's latest patch tried to sneak a big 'ole chair into a boss arena like we wouldn't notice and immediately ponder the lore implications
news What does the chair mean? And why now?
Mega streamer Kai Cenat is streaming Bloodborne to call attention to fan demand for a PC port: 'PlayStation, FromSoft, this is one of the most highly requested games for a remaster and a PC version'
news Doing God's work.
After an uneven first episode, battlemage boomer shooter Wizordum sticks the landing in its second wave of levels
mace and sorcery There's a lot to love here, and it's still cooking in early access.
To celebrate Baldur's Gate 3's first birthday, Larian announces a 'Channel From Hell' on YouTube for 'community-focused' and 'never-before-seen' videos
news Appointment viewing.
Avowed delayed to February to 'give players' backlogs some breathing room'
news The Obsidian RPG is apparently good to go, but has been pushed to 2025.
Anger Foot found its secret sauce in creative, sometimes 'impossible' challenge objectives, but the devs admit the one where you have to go on a lizard-licking psychedelic trip and destroy a toilet came from the 'running out of ideas phase'
clodhoppers "Average Trance Party: Go on a trip and destroy a toilet."
The circle is now complete: The developer of an open-source port of Dark Forces who consulted on the Nightdive Remaster is working on putting the remaster back in the source port
news This compatibility could be of help to modders down the line, and is also just very neat.
One modder has already ported a ton of Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree's bosses into Sekiro
news Midra stands no chance against pure shinobi skill.
A surprise final episode of the Psychonauts 2 documentary series has dropped more than a year after its initial release
news The retrospective on Psychonauts 2 and its development is a lot more melancholy than you might expect.
If you want to talk about 'getting good,' one Elden Ring player has beaten Messmer the Impaler at level 1 without dodging, blocking, or getting hit a single time
news An utterly deranged way of playing the game that I cannot help but respect.
There was a guy dressed like an Assassin's Creed character doing parkour while carrying the Olympic Torch in Paris, which was somehow one of the tamer parts of the opening ceremony
news My favorite part was still the Gojira show.
The Like a Dragon live action show's first trailer isn't giving the same vibe as the games, but it still might make for some great martial arts-infused noir
news We haven't seen much, but I'm digging it so far.
I hope Elden Ring never gets a boss rush mode like Sekiro—helping out strangers in co-op is a much more interesting way of revisiting these fights
jolly cooperation The convenience of a discrete boss rush mode would undermine Elden Ring's unique social element.
My favorite indie answer to the Elder Scrolls, Dread Delusion, just got a surprise final content update—including a dungeon built inside the remains of a giant flying squid
news A suitable sendoff to this very weird world.
Cyberpunk adventure Nobody Wants to Die feels like if you made an entire game out of the boring no-combat intro of a triple-A FPS
film chore These millennials, Nobody Wants to Die anymore!
PowerWash Simulator keeps on giving, with two nautical maps chosen by the community coming to the people's champ in a free update
news I'm a real sucker for that aquarium level.
Guilty Gear Strive is getting Lucy from Cyberpunk: Edgerunners as a guest fighter next year
news A leaked trailer revealed the Cyberpunk guest fighter and three other characters coming to the game.
Microsoft responds to the FTC, argues its Game Pass price hike is actually a good deal for gamers because the new cheapest tier includes multiplayer now
news Why, in the Year of our Lord 2024, does multiplayer functionality still cost extra?
A Baldur's Gate 3 player has discovered hidden mini-quests you can only get by leaving the most important items in the game in an exploding building or at the bottom of the ocean
news We're still finding out all the ways Larian anticipated our deranged Baldur's Gate 3 behavior.
